General Info
Artist's Bio
Ever since my childhood my eye was attracted to the colors and vibrancy of glass. My journey with glass began back in 1984. As I moved around the East Coast, with my husband (due to his career), I started to work with glass as a hobbyist. In 1992, we were transferred to Carlisle, Pennsylvania and became very fond of this beautiful area we made a decision to settle here and to call Carlisle our home. I saw this as my opportunity to work with glass full-time. I started working at a Stained Glass Studio where I taught classes as well as constructed stained glass windows. Every chance I got, I took glass classes from seasoned Glass Artists across the country. My interest in learning new glass techniques started to expand even further into Kiln Formed Glass. My first experiences with kiln formed glass were constructing three –dimensional panels which set my stained glass work apart. Eventually, my Kiln Formed Glass Art expanded into Fused Bowls, Sinks, Tiles, Jewelry, and Sculptures/Cold Working Glass.
In 2002, I opened my business, “LeTort Glass” into a full retail glass shop. Letort Glass occupies 2,000 square feet in a warehouse studio. The open floor plan is sky-lit over a large worktable. Customers enter the shop through a gallery of my finished glasswork. Separate Kiln and cold working equipment are in back of the store, with working space both front and back. Many different kinds of stained glass and fusing glass are distributed for sale along the long, righthand wall. Finished work of all kinds hangs from the ceiling and walls throughout. Our tremendous advantage with the warehouse location is lots of free customer parking.
As you read on you will see that my friend Tony Zizzi gave me the Biggest Compliment anyone could receive. Thank You Tony! I repect your opinions and appreciate your talent.
Testimonial: written by "Tony Zizzi"
If you meet Deb Feller you will meet a simple, personable, humble human and a gifted artist. Yet in her internal universe dwells someone dedicated to perfection in her craft. As a glass artist she continually strives not just to be better than before but also to release her view of perfection in her various glass creations. Upon seizing the opportunity to view and study her works the public now sees more than just a simple being, and may possibly reflect and ask. "What is inside this person that drives her, compels her to attain these levels in her art?" What permits her to create these budding materpieces?"
In many of her new works she is attaining a level of creative and artistic achievement that commands a perfection of feelings to be felt by the observer. Leonardo deVinci stated, "For a work to be considered art it must have feeling." Deb Feller, with her heart and high level of ability evident in her works, is now reaching this rare pinnacle, mastering her wide array of disciplines with glass.
Fine art is a reflection of the unique and often complex inner workings of the human psyche. When these inner workings are manifested in an artwork in a way that elicits our feelings with its perfection then what we are viewing is touching that rare place within a human, where we feel the beauty, the mastery, which is wonderfully unexplainable.
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Exhibits and Publications
Profitable Glass Quarterly
2006 Winter - Volume 9 - Number 4
interviewed "Letort Glass"
Harrisburg Magazine 2007 "Glass Art Combines Design and Function"
by; Scott Campbell
The Garden Gallery 10 N. Hanover St. Carlisle, Pa. (717) 249-1721
"A Matter of Glass" featured glass artists
November 17th - December 23rd 2006
Shape Gallery 7th Annual Abstract & Non - Objective Exhibition
September 4-25th, 2009
Shape Gallery Members Exhibit- April 3rd- April 3rd - April 25 2009
Awards
Gallery of Excellence
FIRST PLACE
Journey "Intuitions"
April-2010 Annual Art Competition, Las Vegas, NV. Sponsored by: Glass Craftsman Magazine: Caterorie Cold Working
AWARDS
Honorable Mention - "Tangerine Show" CALC, February 8 - March 10, 2007
Second prize - "Aqua" at CALC, February 13 to March 14 2009
Look for Letort Glass at the following local galleries:
The Garden Gallery
10 North Hanover Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 249-1721
http://thegardengallery.com
The Village Artisan's Gallery
321 Walnut Street
Boiling Springs, PA
http://www.villageartisansgallery.com
Historical Society Gallery
33 West High Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 258-9332
http://www.historicalsociety.com
Burick Center
2005 Technology Parkway, Suite 350
Mechanicsburg, PA
Phone: (717) 730-9000
http://www.burickcenter.com